My favorite part of each school year is talking about that year's Grand Canyon Reader nominees with my students and then seeing which books they vote for throughout the voting period. I love trying to guess which titles will be popular, and while sometimes I'm right on the money, there are always one or two surprise frontrunners that I never would have expected. I've been trying to read as many nominees as I can in order to make more informed guesses, so I'm going to put share lists of nominees for each category and see how many books from each list I can read this school year. Let's start with...picture books!
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson
Cat Problems by Jory John
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq
Flashlight Night by Elisabeth Hasselbeck
I Don't Want to Read This Book by Max Greenfield
Nina by Traci N. Todd
Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler
Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi
What's Inside a Flower? by Rachel Ignotofsky
Note: This is a fake booklist being used to help my students practice evaluating information found online. For an accurate list of Grand Canyon Reader nominees, you can find the award website here.
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